FIRST OSE WILDCAT AWARD
Congratulations are in order for Alyssa Baller on being the first recipient of the OSE Wildcat Award! This award recognizes a graduating student who has shown resiliency and perseverance through obstacles to the educational journey. The name references the Wildcat mascot and the true grit of our students who “showed the fight of wild cats1”. Congratulations, Alyssa!
Alyssa said of the award, "I am very excited and thankful to have earned the first OSE Wildcat Award. I am honored to represent such a strong group of peers who have all fought like a Wildcat to get to the point of where we are today. One quote that has helped me continue through is: 'it isn’t necessarily that everything happens for a reason, but that everyone recovers for a reason.' We all have faced unpredicted events but I am beyond proud and eager to see where our next steps in life lead us to. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my undergraduate journey."
The OSE Wildcat Award will become an annual award starting in the 2021 - 2022 school year. In it's inaugural year the award was generously funded by Senior Academic Undergraduate Advisor, Amber R. Soergel.
1Quoted from Los Angeles Times reporter William M. Henry on November 7, 1914.